LINKED LIST OF EXCELLENT SERIES OF POLICE/RACE ARTICLES by Heather Mac Donald
Posted on 08/11/2019 2:01:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The Democratic candidates have revived the anti-police rhetoric of the Obama years. Joe Biden’s criminal-justice plan promises that black parents will no longer have to fear when their children walk the streets — the threat allegedly coming from cops, not gangbangers. Pete Buttigieg has said police shootings of black men won’t be solved “until we move policing out from the shadow of systemic racism.” Beto O’Rourke claims that police shoot blacks “solely based on the color of their skin.”
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demolishes the Democratic narrative regarding race and police shootings. It turns out that white officers are no more likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot black civilians. It is a racial group’s rate of violent crime that determines police shootings, not the race of the officer. The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.
In fact, if there is a bias in police shootings after crime rates are taken into account, it is against white civilians, the study found.
Earlier studies have also disproved the idea that white officers are biased in shooting black citizens. The Black Lives Matter narrative has been impervious to the truth, however. Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities. The Obama administration recommended in 2016 that police departments lower their entry standards to be able to qualify more minorities for recruitment.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
At the end of his term, when Bloomberg was asked if blacks were targeted too much by police, he essentially said no, but whites were.
That was before his insane gun crusade.
Thanks to the Left, we are in a post-facts era. Reality is what the Left wants it to be, not what it is.
Luckily for those of us who prefer good old-fashioned facts, reality (the REAL kind, the Truth) still bats last...and it always will.
The last time LAPD lowered hiring standards to keep the leftist judiciary happy, they ended up with the biggest corruption scandal of their history, perpetrated primarily by those court mandated hires.
The majority of police in big city’s are black or Hispanic.
Yet, most, if not all, police Unions will be endorsing cop-hating demonicRATS from coast to coast next year.
An excellent article series by Heather Mac Donald.
Police Shootings and Race
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/police-shootings-and-race-9080.html
Academic Research on Police Shootings and Race
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/academic-research-police-shootings-and-race-9085.html
The Ferguson Effect
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/ferguson-effect-9089.html
More on the ‘Ferguson Effect,’ and Responses to Critics
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/more-ferguson-effect-and-responses-critics-9092.html
An Urgent Desire for More Policing
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/urgent-desire-more-policing-9098.html
This woman gets it.
I’m not sure why Heather Mac Donald isn’t a mainstay on Fox or OANN. She’s that good.
STUNNING factual statistics!
STUNNING information contained in her article.
Worth reading!
We are in an age of nihilism (objective meaninglessness) because that is the worldview of Leftists. In this counter-intuitive view of reality, all that exists is energy, which means there is no such thing as the material world (only our misperceptions about it) or “We the people” only energy in human forms. In a nutshell, this is why Leftists and co. equate America’s traditional Constitutional Republic with social constructs (illusions), racism, white supremacy, injustice, and so on.
Imbeciles like Beto, desperate for traction, makes it up as he falls farther in the polls....
the moron actually said police shoot blacks “solely based on the color of their skin”.......
He didnt produce a scintilla of evidence.
This we know: Beto is about two burritos short of a Taco Bell special....and we have proof.
BETO SLAPPED DOWN BY THE LEFT----Left-wing activists and liberal journalists
mocked “Beto” after he told Vanity Fair that he was “born” to run for president.
The left says he "reeks of white male privilege." (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Drunk driving mug shot....................punk rocker in a print dress.
She’s literally too intelligent to be a talking head.
I emailed the suggestion.
“....punk rocker in a print dress.”
Punk in a print dress.
Fixed it!
You're right, and thanks onyx.
Much better......
These idiots think that putting a black or Hispanic person in a blue uniform and have them police their own communities solves some of the problem. The underbelly have created a criminal operation thru drugs, prostitution, laundering social service handouts, theft, robberies and lawlessness that is only threatened by the uniform that person wears not the color of his or her skin. They are still the enemy to the these communities. Funny how its what you are not who you are that matters to them
“These idiots think that putting a black or Hispanic person in a blue uniform and have them police their own communities solves some of the problem. The underbelly have created a criminal operation thru drugs, prostitution, laundering social service handouts, theft, robberies and lawlessness that is only threatened by the uniform that person wears not the color of his or her skin. They are still the enemy to the these communities. Funny how its what you are not who you are that matters to them”
How creative. Despite the article, you have found another way to diss police.
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